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by Nellie AkalpDid your business struggle this past year? You’re not alone. Statistics show 20% of small businesses fail in their first year, while 30% fail in year two, 50% fail after five years in business and 70% don’t make it past their 10th year in business. Business failure does not mean the end of your entrepreneurial dreams. However, before you move on to your next great idea, it’s important to follow the right steps to legally close your business. Closing a business legally is ...
“Do what you love, the money will follow” That sounds amazing in theory, but how do we actually make that work? Marsha Sinetar discusses her book by the same name, Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow: Discovering Your Right Livelihood, and discusses living an authentic life. We all want to be happy and…
by Jessica Thiefels | Featured Contributor Self-doubt is real—and we’ve all felt it at some point in our lives. In fact, in a recent poll on my Instagram Story, of 90 responders, 85 percent said they struggled with self-doubt in some area of their lives. While that self-doubt is totally normal, it can keep us…
The ‘Holidays’ … … offer entrepreneurs a renewed opportunity to serve, solve, & be civil, especially in hyper competitive industries. With this mindset, we can ask ourselves a key question: How can business owners strengthen the pillars of our civil society? Please think & then brainstorm ways to turn thoughts…
Social media has become an indispensable part of our lives. People are spending more time than ever on their favorite social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn and others. With increased user activity on social channels, marketers are trying new ways to reach audiences on social media. One of the easiest ways to…
by Danielle Hayden | Featured Contributor Let’s get real and talk about our fears over money and more importantly how do we get more of it back in our business. This interview I did with our bookkeeping client provided her with so much clarity she asked me to share it with you. Here is what…
by Luana Ribeira Even in the age of powerful, competing media, you’re still not considered “mainstream successful” until you’ve appeared on TV. Having a lot of subscribers is great, getting a lot of clicks and views is fabulous, but being on TV is still the rubber stamp that marks you out as being “real”…
by Luana Ribeira There’s no doubt about the fact that the media is incredibly powerful. It influences, it leads and it is all around us, everywhere we go. We’ve all taken action at some point due to something we’ve seen in the media. I have a question for you- are you harnessing the power of…
by Victoria Hockaday | Featured Contributor If you haven’t noticed there’s A LOT of information online about how to grow your Pinterest traffic. (Okay, who are we kidding, you totally noticed). So, if you’re wondering “what are the most essential strategies to grow your Pinterest traffic?” I’ve got you covered! Here’s 3 surefire ways to…
by Charlotte O’Hara A few years ago, Charlotte O’Hara accidentally started a new business as a web designer/developer. She had been working in tech since graduating from university but had never considered working for herself. But word got out that she was “good with computers” and could “build websites and stuff online”, and she started…
by Sue Perez | Featured Contributor Yep, it’s that time of the year AGAIN. We are all scratching our heads wondering where the year went. It literally just flies by. If you are like most entrepreneurs than you are managing your calendar daily ticking the boxes of what got done at the end of…
by Donna Amos | Featured Contributor Blogging is on fire! In fact, social media and SEO expert Neal Schaffer claims that, “Blogging is as effective a marketing tool as ever. In fact, it’s supercharged.” A recent study by Data Box, entitled “The Shift in Your Content Marketing Mix: 25 Marketers On What’s Changed in 2 Years” showed…
by Dr. R. Kay Green | Featured Contributor The new year is closer than you think, and this will be a particularly exciting one. Not only is January 1, 2020 the start of a new year; it is also a new decade. And that means that it is a better time than ever to set…